Former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar: Keystone XL should be built

Salazar comments on pipeline at Texas energy conference

WASHINGTON — Former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says he believes the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada should be built.

Salazar said at an energy conference in Houston Wednesday that the pipeline could be built safely, as long as conditions are imposed. Those conditions would require the pipeline operator to meet tough environmental standards and even pay for conservation programs along the pipeline route.

Salazar told The Associated Press that the pipeline could be a "win-win" project that benefits U.S. energy security while boosting conservation efforts in Montana, South Dakota and other affected states.

Salazar's comments follow a State Department report last week that raised no major environmental objections to the $7 billion pipeline. The pipeline would carry oil from western Canada to refineries along the Texas Gulf Coast.

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had their property condemned or confiscated so this corporation could make more money?

This pipeline is not in the interest of national security nor is it in the best interest of the public. Yet this corporation gets to take people land for it. And the press is silent...because it's owned by the same corporations.